Running apps as root?

[Rudi von Staden]

> > do you mean something like "run as.." ?
> > it would be a nice feature, a shortcut for sudo su $user -c $app ...
> 
>   Applications -> System Tools -> Run as different user
> 
> ... is the general idea, although it uses gksu, not gksudo, so won't do
> what you want by default.

That's pretty much what I was getting at, except that as you say it
doesn't seem to work for this. If I try to run something as root, it
asks for the root password - this seems to be different from the sudo
password, is that right?

To my mind it would be ideal to have the option to right-click on an
application and select "Run as root", though I could see that might
introduce a multitude of security challenges.

Rudi